Azur Lane Event Selector Guide: Which Event Banner to Pick

When choosing an event banner in the Azur Lane event selector, pick a banner featuring an Ultra Rare (UR) ship first if your account lacks premier fleet anchors. If your core damage carries are already secured, shift your selection to banners offering essential fleet healers or vanguard damage buffers. If your current fleets already clear your progression goals comfortably, skip pulling entirely, as all selector events eventually return to the permanent construction pools or the War Archives.

Priority Order for Event Banners

Evaluate your dock needs against the following hierarchy before locking in your selector choice:

Priority	Banner Focus	Primary Target Value	Recommended Action
Tier 1 (Highest)	Ultra Rare (UR) Flagships and Tanks	Campaign bosses, Arbiter showdowns, META battles	Pull until your target UR ship drops, then stop immediately.
Tier 2 (High)	Sustained Healers and Aviation Buffers	Chapters 13–15 mob fleets, Operation Siren clears	Select if you already own top UR damage carries.
Tier 3 (Situational)	Dedicated Submarines and Faction Buffers	Late-game Campaign optimization and Fleet Tech	Select only to finalize specific faction fleet setups.
Tier 4 (Lowest)	Sidegrade Cruisers and Older Battleships	General collection and casual dock filling	Skip to preserve Wisdom Cubes and Coins.

1. Ultra Rare Banners

Events with UR ships provide the greatest account progression. Battleships such as New Jersey and Ulrich von Hutten deliver single-target shelling damage, high durability, and backline faction synergies. Frontline units like Shimakaze and Kronshtadt solve survivability and burst-damage hurdles against high-difficulty humanoid waves. Because UR units remain staples across Campaign, Operation Siren, and Arbiter fights, their long-term value outweighs standard Super Rare (SSR) rate-ups.

2. High-Utility Healers and Support Ships

If your backline damage is already established, choose banners that provide survivability or specialized damage amplification:

Dedicated Mob Healers: Ships like Volga sustain your vanguard across multi-battle mob nodes in late Campaign chapters without depending solely on auxiliary items.
Airstrike Buffers: Vanguard ships like Kazagumo carry Air Raid Assistance skills, significantly increasing the damage output of fleet carriers such as Shinano, Hakuryuu, and Enterprise.
Off-Fleet Utility: Ships featuring cross-fleet barrages or fleet-wide stat boosts assist secondary fleets during Operation Siren zones even when not directly deployed in the active fight.

Factoring Event Gear into Your Choice

Do not pick an event selector banner based on farmable equipment prints alone. While certain events offer transitional gear that bypasses Gear Lab farming, signature event equipment regularly becomes craftable through the Gear Lab or purchasable via the Core Data shop over time. Treat gear only as a tiebreaker if two banners offer shipgirls of equal roster value.

Wisdom Cube Management and Pulling Rules

The event selector pulls directly from your shared Wisdom Cube and Coin reserves. To avoid running out of resources before new UR debuts or limited collaboration events, follow these spending boundaries:

Stop at the Main Target: Halt summons the moment your primary ship appears. Do not spend extra cubes chasing lower-rarity elite ships on the same banner.
Verify Pity Conditions: Check whether the active selector banner features an explicit pity counter. Chasing un-pitied SSR ships can drain hundreds of cubes with no acquisition guarantee.
Conserve for Unseen Banners: Because all selector events are confirmed to return, skipping the selector entirely is the best choice if your current fleets handle active content without bottlenecks.